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In the present study, the spike discharges of frog retinal ganglion cells in response to repetitive full field white light flashes were recorded using multi-electrode array. Cross-correlation analysis showed that two different types of concerted activities could be distinguished according to the peak width of the cross-correlation function. Further analysis revealed that the concerted activity pattern of ganglion cells was dependent on the distance between the neurons being examined: nearby cells often fired in precise synchrony, while correlated activities with distributed time lags were mainly observed from remote cell pairs.
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This work was supported by grants from Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (No.2006AA01Z125) and National Foundation of Natural Science of China (No. 30670519).
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Jing, W., Gong, HQ., Liang, PJ. (2011). Concerted Activities in Frog Retinal Ganglion Cells. In: Wang, R., Gu, F. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (II). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9695-1_27
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